I can't raise a red enough flag for the way states are attacking trans people in this moment. It is extremely bad, and escalating quickly (and relatively quietly)

fuck the ADL

Not filled with confidence and trust by an endorsement that praises Platner for being "anti-racist" without addressing the tattoo, the racist and sexist posts from 2013, and the 2026 praise of the podcast that spreads racist imagery and antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Eyyyy, finally an update on the Arctic Metagaz. Appears to not be actively burning anymore, which is always nice, but it hasn't sunk and is still a drifting, uncontrolled bomb in the middle of the Med. More than a run of the mill Hazard To Navigation. Malta continues to have feelings about this.

They can't hear you, Lindsey. They're dead.

Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegseth’s lust for “lethality.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Y’all the one and only best tea store in the world was broken into again. Please buy tea online to support them, and if you live local go drink tea!

Satellite company @planet.com has announced a *14 day delay* to the release of imagery in the MidEast. This will be a huge setback for those trying to verify events in the region.

In 1902, Abigail Roberson sued when she discovered her face printed on flour sacks everywhere without her consent; the case led to one of the first privacy statutes in NY. But AI impersonations are fine, I guess

That's not equality? Fuck this guy. I'm not expecting a perfect candidate, but Newsom's not even in the realm of "good."

I’ve seen several potential clients using AI LLMs to evaluate legal claims and, besides often being wrong, they reliably interpret the query to predict what answer the user *wants* to hear. So, worse than wrong.

great to hear @sivav.bsky.social talking to @brookegladstone.bsky.social on On the Media about AI and weapons of war. They talk real-time targeting and what accountability means today. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Abolish ICE is the moderate position.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying… “Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

Can we define a deeper level of hell for this kind of depravity? Like in what universe or religion do you think your soul will come out in the right if you’re doing this?

Couple things here: 1. What the fuck 2. I am allllllmost more offended by the suggestion that I would give this shitbox edit than having my identity stolen 3. The CEO is scheduled to be on Decoder soon and we will see if they back out! www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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*beats drum for twenty years*

A Studio Ghibli classic 🐈‍⬛

OpenAI is practicing law without a license, according to an insurer's lawsuit filed in Illinois federal court that alleges ChatGPT provided faulty legal advice to a woman seeking disability benefits that led to a breached settlement and a flurry of frivolous court filings.

Last month, King County, WA passed a measure to improve visibility for ICE flight spotters — including increased observer access space, as well as publicly accessible security cameras. This helps the public audit and monitor ICE detention flights. @govwesmoore.bsky.social 👀

Made it to Friday but at what cost

Gonna go to ECCC? Go meet the nice folks at the Flying Frog booth and get a taste of our Shadows of Brimstone obsession.

One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her. Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...

Apart from the terminally online, the average person has no ability to understand what is going on with the slightest amount of confidence right now. But perhaps that’s the point

This is real bad and we should absolutely be prepping for far worse in November— and also holy hell are they terrified

A minor league hockey team had a wiener dog race. Zero thoughts, just vibes and absolute chaos. A thing of beauty

These things have always been true: 1. The ability to generate buggy code has never been greater. 2. The ability to find bugs in code has never been greater. 3. The ability to fix bugs in code has never been greater. 4. Many, many more people want to do 1 or 2 than 3. Now scale this with AI.

… so about that consumer data privacy legislation we’re never going to get and even if we did would have a huge “law enforcement and safety” carve out? 🫠🤦🏻‍♀️ THANKS I HATE IT

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

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So many of us have spent years warning about the dangers of Christian dominionists in the U.S. government...

why is a war criminal genocidal leader in another country telling us this

It’s another beautiful day on the internet.

This is a bombshell: "the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data" This kind of agenda echoes the defunded Total Information Awareness effort, post-9/11

Extended Reality collects unprecedented data, but who secures it? Cai et al. interviewed developers and found massive awareness gaps regarding the privacy threats their own design decisions create, and propose an actionable path forward.

I saw some folks asking what the difference was between what OpenAI signed with the DoD and what Anthropic said they wanted, and Sam more or less admits here the key point: OpenAI's deal requires them to trust the NSA. Anthropic's contract had real safeguards.

NEW: X Is *drowning* in disinformation following US and Israel’s attack on Iran. WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack. read @davidgilbert.bsky.social:

My major takeaway from the last year of reporting on generative AI chatbots is that safety guardrails can fail when conversations run long and that everyone who works in this space knows that www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...

As I scroll through triumphal pro-war tweets, thinking about this image a lot today:

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

One way to read the AI/Pentagon news from last night (I covered it but didn't skeet) is that the Department of Defense wants AI to automate weapons and/or spy on Americans and that Anthropic would have the best AI to do that, but OpenAI is at least the second-best so they'll just use that instead.

So impressed and blessed for all the brands reaching out to support. thousand and more companies offered to donate product and my team gunna get to it. 🙏🏾🙏🏾 BUT if you a billion dollar company,,, we don’t want a product donation. We want you to sponsor these women + athletes. 👀

Very funny to me, also, that "The Arsenal of Freedom" is the name of an episode in Star Trek TNG where autonomous AI weapons killed an entire civilization and there's a sales hologram still on the planet trying to sell them. it was originally a commentary in the sale of F-14 Tomcats to Iran(!)

From last year theonion.com/netanyahu-ca...

I deeply resent having to live in the absolutely most stupid of timelines

Clearly not enough of you have read dystopian lit